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2 Mar 2011, 10:10 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Thanks to the kind invite of Jonathan Adler and the Case Western Reserve Law School Center for Business Law and Regulation, I’m honored to have been invited to give the Dean Lindsey Cowen Business Law Lecture at Case Western tomorrow from 4:30–5:30. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 7:00 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Just got back this weekend from a fantastic week and a half at PERC hanging out with a bunch of my old Clemson professors. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 2:00 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I was delighted to be invited to contribute to an important new book that has just appeared: Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 11:47 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The Washington Post’s education blog has an update on UVA’s decision that Ilya and I mentioned a little while back to get rid of its policies that infringe on free speech. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 3:19 pm by Ted Frank
Jeremy Kidd and Todd Zywicki @ SSRN:Taking as given the claims of tort reform proponents, that increased tort liability in the past few decades has had deleterious effects on American productivity, consumer safety, etc., we consider whether proposed measures to increase access to the courts are likely to be beneficial, with a specific focus on third-party financing and lawyer advertising. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 1:00 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I acknowledge from the comments that many readers were less impressed than I was with Peter Wallison’s criticism of the concept of “systemic risk” that I posted a couple of weeks back (although I didn’t see anything then or since that has led me to question Peter’s conclusion that the problem was not interconnectedness but common shock, as Peter argues). [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 4:27 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The wits at CEI have come up with another good one–you can print your own $5 “Durbin Dollars” and mail it to Senator Durbin to thank him for his price controls on debit card interchange fees and resulting new bank fees. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 11:38 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) From yesterday’s WSJ:Nan Terrie learned an expensive lesson last week about the importance of property rights. [read post]
6 May 2010, 5:23 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Some of the results in this new article by Zeljka Buturovic and Dan Klein in Econ Journal Watch (a peer-reviewed journal of economics) are startling: 67% of self-described Progressives believe that restrictions on housing development (i.e., regulations that reduce the supply of housing) do not make housing less affordable. 51% believe that mandatory licensing of professionals (i.e., reducing the supply of professionals) doesn’t increase the cost of… [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 12:41 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) My new article (with Ed Stringham) has just been posted on SSRN. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 8:53 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve never liked the federal judicial clerkship cartel. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 10:17 am
Todd Zywicki praises Jan Crawford Greenberg's new book, Supreme Conflict. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 7:00 pm by Adam Levitin
Over at Volokh Conspiracy, Todd Zywicki spent Christmas Eve crowing about a Wall Street Journal article about the boom in payday lending. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 5:16 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Philip Morris goes green (via The Onion): Executives at Philip Morris USA this week unveiled Marlboro Earth, a new eco-friendly cigarette that gradually eliminates the causes of global warming and environmental destruction at their source.... [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 6:46 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) It has been along time since I’ve heard anything about David Stockman.   [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 5:14 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Pawnshops have grown rapidly during the credit crunch and have started lending further up the income ladder from their traditional base–and will continue to grow I expect as regulation of credit cards and interchange fees drives more people out of mainstream financial institutions:Pawnshop respectability surged when the economy faltered, noted the National Pawnbrokers Association’s Murphy. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 8:23 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics has just announced the inaugural Carl Menger Essay Prize for undergraduate students. [read post]